The past couple of weeks have been quite busy. Kate's first week off of school had minimal obligations but it has since picked up a lot. She has swim lessons MWF, Taekwondo MWF, and piano on Tuesdays. This week we ended up going to our friend's house to swim on Tuesday and Thursday as well. All and all, it doesn't seem like much when I type it all out, but man, our days were so busy! The time flies and before I know it I'm wondering what's for dinner.
This week Kate, Abby, and Ellie had a lot of fun catching toads, frogs, lizards, and various kinds of bugs.
Abby LOVES making Becca laugh. She started pushing Becca around in the laundry basket and it transformed Becca into a basket of giggles. I love watching my girls take care of each other and play nicely together.
Tuesday was a birthday party for Abby's friend, Jack. The theme was science!
The kids were given lab coats and protective eye-where. They all looked so cute!
The first experiment was getting a boiled egg sucked into a bottle whose neck was smaller than the egg.
Ellie thought it was super funny!
The next experiment was filling up a balloon from the gases put off from the combination of vinegar and baking soda.
The kids loved it and giggled about the stinky smell of vinegar.
Sadly, Kate, Ellie, Becca, and myself had to leave early to take Kate to piano lessons. Abby stayed and enjoyed herself. More experiments were created; cake and ice cream was enjoyed; and presents were opened.
Every day this week after swim lessons we would come home and have lunch "quickly" so that Ellie could take her nap. The girls are always silly but they seemed extra silly on Wednesday. I love looking at these pictures because they show the sweet relationship the girls have with each other.
Becca was the first one to try out the new sit-and-spin toy that came in the mail.
Corn has been $0.25 a cob and is so yummy that we've been eating it often. Becca loves going to town on her corn. Makes her feel like a big girl.
Gerald finally got a hair cut this week. I had to stop mid cut to take care of the girls so he chilled like this for a while.
Becca fell asleep on her daddy while watching our favorite show ever, The Office.
The only picture I have of swimming at our friend's house this week. Ellie loved walking on the diving board but only jumped off of it a few times, and usually with help.
Getting a back rub from Daddy. Becca had been crawling around and then saw Andrew and quickly crawled over to his lap. She adores him so much.
Thursday after dinner, Kate treated us all to fro-yo at Sweet Frog. She had been given a gift card for her birthday and was more than happy to use it all on us.
Sweet Ellie Mae shared hers with Becca.
And here is my dark chocolate, copper bottomed baby after another morning at the pool.
Abby was happy to help keep Becca happy for me while I took pizza out of the oven for dinner. And Becca was happy to keep chilling with Abby even after the pizza was out. I loved hearing Abby tell Becca all about the animals in our latest issue of NatGeoKids.
And as for today, the girls have all had fun playing in the water this morning. Ellie and Becca have learned to love water at a younger age than Kate and Abby. They both played for a good hour outside in the water and sand this morning before I had to hose them off and bring them in for some lunch. Oh, to be young.
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